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So how can we get Alexa into our living rooms? Over the past six months, tech companies have been battling it out to connect digital assistants to your TV. Homepod, Google Max, and the Sonos Beam bring quality sound, while the Fire TV Cube and Amazon’s Echo and Dot just want to make our TVs work with voice. In this episode of Processor, Dieter walks us through our options to add Alexa onto our TV.

Our complete Alexa setup guide shows you how to get started with Amazon's smart home assistant - from downloading the Alexa app onto your iPhone or Android phone to setting up compatible speakers such as the Amazon Echo Spot, Show, Dot and beyond, plus devices from Bose and Sonos.

These days Alexa can be found in hundreds of smart devices, from speakers and TVs to smartphones and other smart home kit. The best voice assistant of 2018/2019 can control your kit, deliver information on demand and loads more besides - and here's how to get setup, whatever your equipment.

Alexa is completely free to use, and a serious rival to the likes of the Google Assistant and Siri. Especially as she was one of the first to be integrated into smart home tech, so she has more features and better understanding - as well as impressive support.

We hope this guide to using Alexa helps, and check out our reviews of Amazon's Echo speakers for more.

Google Assistant and Alexa are both trying to take over your smart devices. But who has the weirdest gadgets? Shannon and Dieter explore the show floor at CES 2019 to find the coolest and most unusual uses of these digital assistants.

Our Alexa tips & tricks guide reveals our favourite Skills that Amazon's AI assistant supports in the UK in 2019. Here's how to get started with Alexa on your Echo or other smart device, including changing her wake word and downloading new features. We then run through the best stuff she can do, including:

How to control your smart home gear, including lights, heating and devices such as your Xbox One.

How to customise and use Alexa's Flash Briefing, to get a full news and schedule update each morning.

How to relax with stress-busting sounds, and wake up to your favourite music.

How Alexa can help you get fit with Joe Wicks workouts.

The best games and quizzes to play on your Echo speaker (and other Alexa-supported devices).

Got your own favourite tips and tricks with Amazon's AI to share? Let us know in the comments below!